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| - | ===== Structural compression of relational and semantic web databases ===== | ||
| - | Recent research in database management systems at ULB has shown how to | ||
| - | theoretically construct succinct (compressed) representations for | ||
| - | relational databases and semantic web databases. The advantage of | ||
| - | these succinct representations is that they allow querying directly | ||
| - | *on the succinct representation*, without needing to consult the | ||
| - | underlying database. | ||
| - | The goal of this thesis is to study scalable algorithms for | ||
| - | constructing the actual succinct representations. Some in-memory | ||
| - | algorithms are already known, but given the large size of typical | ||
| - | database, distributed and out-of-memory alternatives need to be found. | ||
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| - | * Contact : [[stijn.vansummeren@ulb.ac.be|Stijn Vansummeren]] | ||
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| - | ===== Comparision of Big Data Analysis tools ===== | ||
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| ===== Design and Implementation of a Curriculum Revision Tool ====== | ===== Design and Implementation of a Curriculum Revision Tool ====== | ||
| - | Stijn Vansummeren (WIT) | + | Stijn Vansummeren (WIT), Frédéric Robert (BEAMS) |
| This MFE concers the analysis, design, and implementation of a | This MFE concers the analysis, design, and implementation of a | ||
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| The primary targetted functionalities of the software system are as | The primary targetted functionalities of the software system are as | ||
| follows: | follows: | ||
| + | * It should allow to make different versions of the teaching programs, much in the same way as version control systems like GIT and subversion offer the possibility to make different "development branches" of a program's source code. | ||
| + | * It should allow an extensible means to check the modified program for inconsistentcies. (For example, if course X has course Y as prerequisite, then course Y should not be scheduled in 2nd semester and X in 1st semester. Moreover, the total number of ECTS of all courses should be at most 60 ECTS. ) | ||
| + | * It should allow to analyze the modifications proposed in the teaching programs, and summarize the impact that these changes could have on other programs. (For example, if a course is removed from the computer science curriculum, it should be flagged that it should also be removed from all curricula that included the course.) | ||
| + | * It should load data from (and preferably, save data to) the ULB central administration database. | ||
| + | * It should give suggestions concerning the impact of the modifications on the course schedules. | ||
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| + | A proof-of-concept implementation of a revision tool that supports the first two requirements above is currently being developed in the context of a PROJH402 project. The MFE student that selects this topic is expected to: | ||
| - | * It should allow to make different versions of the teaching programs, much in the same way as version control systems like GIT and subversion offer the possibility to make different "development branches" of a program's source code. | + | * Develop this prototype to a production-ready implementation. |
| + | * Implement the communication with the central ULB database. | ||
| + | * Implement the impact analysis concerning the course schedules. | ||
| + | * Interact with the administration of the Ecole Polytechnique to fine-tune the above requirements; test the implementation; and integrate remarks after testing | ||
| - | * It should allow an extensible means to check the modified program for inconsistentcies. (For example, if course X has course Y | + | Contact : Stijn Vansummeren <stijn.vansummeren@ulb.ac.be>, Frédéric Robert <frrobert@ulb.ac.be> |
| ===== Structural compression of relational and semantic web databases ===== | ===== Structural compression of relational and semantic web databases ===== | ||